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Woman aquires new accent after stroke

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 03, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (23) | comments 14

A woman in southern Ontario is one of the first cases in Canada of a rare neurological syndrome in which a person starts speaking with a different accent, McMaster University researchers report in the July issue of the Canadian Jo ...





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American scriptwriters increasingly incorporating Spanish in their dialogues

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Nieves Jiménez Carra, a researcher and lecturer at the Pablo de Olavide (UPO) University in Seville has studied how scripts swap from one language to another in American television series and cinema. One of her conclusions ...


In a first, key pancreatic cells inserted in wounded airman's liver

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

In what medical officials say is a first, the bullet-scarred pancreas from a service member who was shot in Afghanistan was flown from Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington to the University of Miami, where insulin-producing ...


Canadian first: The heart in telemonitoring

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The electrophysiology team at the Montreal Heart Institute (MHI) recently performed the first implantation of a new type of cardiac pacemaker (Accent RF) in Canada. This landmark procedure was carried out on October 22, 2009 ...


Foreign subtitles improve speech perception

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Do you speak English as a second language well, but still have trouble understanding movies with unfamiliar accents, such as Brad Pitt's southern accent in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds? In a new study, published ...


Google's voice search tool now understands Chinese

Google voice search learns Chinese

Technology / Internet

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Google's voice search tool now understands Chinese. The Internet giant announced on Monday that users of Nokia S60 series mobile phones could now search the Internet using voice commands in Mandarin Chinese.


In future it will be possible to write an entire website address in any of the world's language scripts

Multilingual web address system approved

Technology / Internet

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 7

The nonprofit body that oversees Internet addresses approved Friday the use of Hebrew, Hindi, Korean and other scripts not based on Latin characters in a decision that could make the Web dramatically more ...


Not a healthy state for all Latinos in the US

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Where Latinos are born and their immigration status affect the quality of health care they receive in the US, according to Professor Michael Rodríguez and colleagues from the UCLA Department of Family Medicine and ...


3 win Nobel for mapping atoms in cell's factories (AP)

2 Americans, 1 Israeli win Nobel chemistry prize

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(AP) -- Two Americans and an Israeli scientist won the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for atom-by-atom mapping of the protein-making factories within cells - a feat that has spurred the development ...


Researchers shed light on the brain mechanism responsible for processing of speech

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Aug 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have succeeded for the first time in devising a model that describes and identifies a basic cellular mechanism that enables networks of neurons to efficiently decode speech ...


What makes an accent in a foreign language lighter

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Aug 10, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

The more empathy one has for another, the lighter the accent will be when speaking in a second language. This is the conclusion of a new study carried out at the University of Haifa by Dr. Raphiq Ibrahim and Dr. Mark Leikin ...



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